Method of knitting



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METHOD OF KNITTING Filed March 20. 1951 2 SHEETS SHEET 2 Fla. 2.

OOOOO'OOOO OO [NI/ENTORI 131 L. .927 P15 Patented Feb. 12, 1952 METHOD OF KNITTING Paul L. St. Pierre, Pawtucket, R. I., assignor to Hcmphill Company, Pawtucket, R. L, a corporation of Massachusetts Application March 20, 1951, Serial No. 216,527

2 Claims.

, 1 This invention concerns a method of making a picot edge for fabric knit on a circular, independent needle, knitting machine capable of making true rib fabric such, for example, as a' hosiery machine having a dial and cylinder.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 illustrates a stocking having a picot edge as made by this invention; and

Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic illustration of a part of the top fabric showing how the picot edge is knit.

As shown in Fig. 1 and as is well known, a picot edge produces a scalloped effect at the extreme upper edge of the stocking top.

As shown in Fig. 2, this edge is knit as follows:

To insure that the yarn is properly taken by the needles or to provide a short section of knitting between adjacent stockings, if they are knit as string work, a few courses of plain fabric, such as I and 2, are knit on all of the cylinder needles. Thereafter, another course is knit, such as 3, in which alternate cylinder needle loops are run off to provide the usual separating course.

In the next course 4, which is the first course of the stocking top, the dial is brought into action and the yarn is fed to the dial needles and intermediate cylinder needles in alternation in the customary way. However, only the intermediate cylinder needles knit. The yarn is merely held by the dial needles as shown. The next course 5 is again knit by the intermediate cylinder needles only and no yarn is fed to the dial needles which continue to hold the yarn which was fed to them during the making of course 4. In addition, every sixth intermediate cylinder needle, such as I5, is put out of action so that it also does not knit but merely holds the yarn which has been fed to it.

Course 6 is knit in the same way as course 5, the dial needles being out of action and every sixth intermediate cylinder needle also. For course I, the dial needles are brought into action again and a course of regular rib fabric is knit by both the dial and intermediate cylinder needles with the exception that the every sixth intermediate cylinder needle is still kept mactive with the original yarn still on it. Thereafter, other courses, such as courses 8, 9, l0 and II are knit in the same manner as course 1. Course I2 is also the same with the exception that every sixth intermediate needle, which has been inactive since the knitting of course 4, is

now brought into action so that course l2 consists of regular rib fabric. knitting of dial rib fabric is continued as long as desired to complete the rib top as represented by courses I3 and [4.

The picot edge is completed by the knitting of course [2 and results in an appearance similar to that illustrated at IS in Fig. 1.

It will be understood, of course, that the number of courses of each type described above may be varied as desired and that the every sixth intermediate cylinder needle referred to may be changed to every fourth intermediate cylinder needle or any other arrangement desired depending upon the exact size and type of picot edge to be produced.

I claim:

1. A method of knitting a picot edge for knitted fabric on a circular independent needle dial and cylinder knitting machine which includes the steps of feeding yarn to dial and intermediate cylinder needles in alternation, knitting at least one course by intermediate cylinder needles with the exception of spaced intermediate cylinder needles while holding the yarn upon the dial needles and said spaced intermediate cylinder needles, then knitting at least one course upon all dial needles and all intermediate cylinder needles with the exception of said spaced intermediate cylinder needles and continuing to hold the yarn upon said spaced intermediate cylinder needles and then knitting rib fabric upon all dial and intermediate cylinder needles.

2. A method of knitting a picot edge for knitted fabric on a circular independent needle dial and cylinder knitting machine which includes the steps of feeding yarn to dial and intermediate cylinder needles in alternation, knitting a plurality of courses by intermediate cylinder needles with the exception of spaced intermediate cylinder needles while holding the yarn upon the dial needles and said spaced intermediate cylinder needles, then knitting a plurality of courses upon all dial needles and all intermediate cylinder needles with the exception of said spaced intermediate cylinder needles and continuing to hold the yarn upon said spaced intermediate cylinder needles and then knitting rib fabric upon all dial and intermediate cylinder needles.

PAUL L. ST. PIERRE.

No references cited.

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